"kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying, they have a job with Han Kramer's body at the Judgment Day, piecing it together after a direct hit; Martens has no legs any more, Meyer is dead, Beyer is dead, Hammerling is dead, there are a hundred and twenty wounded men lying somewhere or other; it is a damageable business, but what has it to do with us now--we live."
"To Russia? It's not much of a war over there.
In the distance the front thunders. The walls of the hut rattle"
""Yes, well now," pursues Albert, and I see that he means to drive me into a corner, "but out professors and parsons and newspapers say that we are the only ones that are right, and let's hope so;--but the French professors and parsons and newspapers say that the right is on their side, now what about that?""
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1. first quote shows how friends die so quickly in the war and its hard to deal with their loss when your still alive
2. The second quote is when paul and his company go to russia where the war is not as heavy and get to relax for a bit
3. the third quote is when paul and his friends are trying to understand how a war gets started? and why do they need to sacrifice their lives for a state when they are just farmers or peasants
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